Associate, Business Development

The Weber Shandwick Editorial team is currently seeking a motivated editor, content strategist, and scientific storyteller to help our healthcare and pharma clients bring their messaging to life across channels. This individual will work with a team of graphic designers, social media managers, and scientific communicators to create a compelling narrative around pertinent life science information. Our editors know what makes a good story, and how to bring that story to life – whether in a blog article, social post, video, podcast, or in a presentation. Our team thinks and operates differently than what you’d expect at an agency, and we pride ourselves on it.

This individual will be responsible for writing, content creation, publishing, managing editorial calendars and assisting with client assignments, strategies, and editorial development. Candidates must have proven writing skills with digital publishing experience preferred, the ability to work both collaboratively and independently. 

The Ideal Candidate Would Have:

• 3-5 years of editorial experience at a media or online publishing company
• Subject matter expertise in health, medical, pharmaceutical, or biotech industry writing
• A proven track record of working under daily, weekly, and monthly deadlines
• Excellent editing, writing, and grammatical skills
• A keen sense of news value and editorial judgment, especially in the Healthcare beat
• Experience writing, reporting, and interviewing
• Ability to develop creative story ideas and an eagerness to execute them.
• Be able to write sharp, engaging copy on a variety of Pharma/Healthcare topics, in a variety of voices for different audiences and in a variety of content types
• Ability to develop content strategies, including setting goals, determining audiences, performing research and competitor audits, choosing channels, and developing editorial calendars
• Experience writing for a medical industry or professional audience
• Knowledge of multimedia storytelling
• A clear ability to work autonomously, with solid decision-making skills and the ability to identify concerns and issues
• Can communicate effectively with clients and internal team members
• Can demonstrate a thorough understanding of web publishing from site structure to overseeing asset management; from editing copy to producing content on publishing platforms (WordPress, Expression Engine, etc.).

What You Will Do:

• Analyze Pharma/Healthcare client objectives and audiences to determine content channels, and types.
• Create editorial workflows, develop content calendars, and report on content results.
• Generate and help produce story and content packages (blog posts, though leadership op-eds, social posts/calendars, email/website copy, podcast/video scripts and whitepapers).
• Edit and help oversee editorial calendars — both for websites and social channels.
• Edit stories from freelancers and others for publication on the web.
• Develop and write short-form copy for social posts across multiple channels.
• Produce content in CMS such as WordPress.
• Manage analytics and reporting on web content.
• Contribute story ideas – from pitch to execution – for multiple digital platforms.
• Coordinate with other departments and teammates, such as art, media buying, social media and more.

We are also interested in candidates who have:

• Powerpoint experience preferred
• Familiarity with using WordPress and CMS platforms
• SEO familiarity is a plus
• Experience in analytics tools like Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics a plus
• Working knowledge of social media platforms
• Knowledge of health policy and commercial pharma landscape

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

NYC Salary range: $62,400.00 – $80,000.00

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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What You Will Do:

• Manage work schedules and domestic/international travel for Executive
• Schedule conference calls and video meetings with domestic/international employees
• Executive protocol work at events, etc
• Phone and external visitor response
• Expense and slip processing
• Personal assistance tasks
• Project management and other administrative affairs
• Other duties to support the executive

What You Will Need:

• At least 5 years of executive assistant experience
• Fluent in English communication skill to communicate with overseas employees (speaking, writing, reading, etc.) 
• Ability to utilize OA
• No disqualifications for overseas business trips
• Available to work in Seoul, Korea

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Note from the team

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Weber Shandwick is committed to building a culture where all employees are seen as equal, are respected and where all opinions are heard. We take pride in our inclusive hiring, as well as our diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates.

Personal data held by Weber Shandwick relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.

Due to the large number of applications received, we apologize if we are unable to provide a response or feedback on unsuccessful applications. We appreciate the time taken to apply for the role and your recent interest in Weber Shandwick.

Who is Weber Shandwick? 

We create cultural value and help brands navigate the ever-changing age of earned: an age where consumers actively say no to advertising; an age where everyone is an influencer that can make or break your brand; an age where content can be turned into commercial opportunity.

Our talented team builds brands by finding connection points in the real world. We energise the right mix of talent, using the right platforms and latest technology to choreograph stories that make a real and meaningful impact for some of the world’s leading brands and businesses such as HSBC, Unilever and eBay to name a few.  

We earn affection, attention, affinity, and purchase by delivering value to people around the world, with deep specialisms spanning technology, entertainment & lifestyle, and energy. We are known for:  

• Developing data driven insights and strategies to drive measurable impact 
• Creating impactful campaigns that tap into culture  
• Creating channel and platform agnostic campaigns that grow organically
• Delivering integrated campaigns that are earned-first but deliver for paid and owned

What’s happening?

We’re hiring for a Senior Business Affairs Manager to join our team in London. This role would suit someone that’s currently in a Business Affairs or Project/Programme Management position.

You will work closely with our existing accounts, project, operations, and legal teams to add more senior capability, both to over-see and make changes to how we work.

This role will enhance the delivery of our work, with key focus areas being accurate documentation, and looking at how we are organised to deliver. Whilst this is predominantly an internal-facing role, some client management may be necessary when acting as a point of escalation. Internal stakeholder management is key.

Ideally, you’re a problem solver, a self-starter, a multitasker, and a quick thinker with a level head and excellent people skills. This important role will keep you on your toes with varying day-to-day work that is both fun and challenging. 

What will you be doing?

• Applying agency best practices to autonomously create and drive a process for seamless delivery across all work 
• Reviewing client SOWs and third-party contracts for suppliers / vendors.
• Supporting the teams on vetting, negotiating and contracting third parties, with keen attention to risk management
• Summarising client terms as they apply to suppliers
• Populating/checking standard form contracts
• Bridging the gap between the Account and Creative teams with Operations and Legal, ensuring all work is of the highest quality before going for review
• Identify areas where teams need additional clarification or guidance and create appropriate guidelines and materials
• Setting in place clear guidelines and boundaries to work to
• Work with financial Business Manager to identify areas of efficiency
• Maintain oversight of all client work streams in the Consumer practice to ensure consistency, knowledge sharing, and accurate financial reporting
• Identify and flag discrepancies in plans, demonstrating an understanding of how to efficiently address them and remove hurdles
• Prepare materials for contributing to resourcing meetings
• Proactivity build strong, positive relationships with team members at all levels, and act as a widely-known, helpful resource and problem solver

Who are you?

Qualifications:

• Significant experience in an agency or production environment
• Previous experience working in a similar programme management / business affairs role
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and Project Management tools
• Solid understanding with proven track record of contracting and negotiations
• Solid understanding of and familiarity with agency process and project lifecycles

Key skills:

• Be a strong hands-on individual that can organise and operate with multi-faceted teams
• Possess strong sense of curiosity, solution-oriented mentality, and critical thinking skills
• A proven upbeat, enthusiastic and self-starter attitude with the ability to inspire and motivate a variety of team members
• Commercially aware with good attention to detail
• Good negotiation skills and comfortable managing senior stakeholders
• Be able to correctly prioritise, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams from beginning to end
• An adaptable attitude and ability to think laterally

Core Benefits:

• Private medical insurance
• Group life assurance
• Group income protection
• Personal pension plan
• Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible Benefits:

• Buy or sell holiday
• Additional life assurance cover
• Critical illness insurance
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Dental insurance
• Travel insurance
• Health screening
• Gym discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health cash plan
• Flexible working with our 3:2 hybrid work model
• 4pm Friday finish
• Equivalent of $250 USD for new joiners on 6 month + contract to support home working setup
• 25 days’ annual leave (in addition to public holidays) plus 2 volunteering days, birthday day off work and discretionary festive closure
• Flexible public holidays 
• Sweets and snacks in the office
• Exclusive shopping discounts and perks
• Headspace membership
• Annual eyecare voucher
• Season ticket loan
• Referral bonus scheme
• Long service bonus
• Enhanced family leave
• Inclusive and invisible health policies

Note from the Talent Team:

We  appreciate the time take to apply for the role and your recent interest in Weber Shandwick. We will review all applications within five working days and be in touch with those who have been shortlisted to the next stage. Unfortunately, due to volume we are not able to get back to everyone individually so if you have not heard back from us unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion and wish you all the best in your search.

At IPG DXTRA we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

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